Lectures and essays
By: by Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, first early of Iddesleigh.
Publisher: W. Blackwood and sons
Published: 1887
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
Table of contents: title: Do states, like individuals, inevitably tend, after a period of maturity, to decay?; title: On taste.; title: Accuracy.; title: Desultory reading.; title: On the study of political economy.; title: Schools and school life.; title: On nothing.; title: The closing of the Exchequer by Charles II, in 1672.; title: Names and nicknames.; title: Arch℗æology of Devon and Cornwall.; title: On distant correspondence.; title: On Moli©Łere.; title: Appendix: A Christmas charade, 1862.  Candidate. Sibyl's cave.  Clerk of Oxenforde.  Lines of the Duke of Wellington's statue.  Lines written in his sister's album, 184